Hacker News: u8080

New comment by u8080 in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

u8080 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:02:14 +0000

Isn't sp500 mainly US companies with <10% EU ones?

New comment by u8080 in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

u8080 — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:58:25 +0000

Yeah, right, like they've already done that with social networks and chipmaking.

New comment by u8080 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

u8080 — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:28:15 +0000

When compiler decides something is UB aka "result of this code is not defined and could be any" it selects the most performant version of undefined behavior - doing nothing by optimizing code away.

New comment by u8080 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

u8080 — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:42:02 +0000

This is relevant to your comparasion of death camps to twitter posts.

New comment by u8080 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

u8080 — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:40:23 +0000

I mean, there were gasenwagens and VW literally used slave labour of certain camps.

New comment by u8080 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

u8080 — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:01:45 +0000

Idk, both of my grandfathers turned into ashes in cars developed by VW, seems pretty bold and rude comparasion to supposedly "racist" tweets.

New comment by u8080 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

u8080 — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:59:22 +0000

Yeah, fuck VolksWagen!

New comment by u8080 in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

u8080 — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:21:34 +0000

Did you miss Snowden or something?

New comment by u8080 in "Starship V3"

u8080 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:41:02 +0000

But there are cheap drone swarms on earth which could destroy it.

New comment by u8080 in "Starship V3"

u8080 — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:09:29 +0000

Data centers in space make sense if it is military AI controlling drone swarms over Starlink during global conflict.

New comment by u8080 in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

u8080 — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:46:56 +0000

I mean, what do you expect from state-controlled media?

New comment by u8080 in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

u8080 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:43:36 +0000

Your point is valid, however govt(corrupt officials) keeping power over freedom of information will end very bad.

New comment by u8080 in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

u8080 — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:09:49 +0000

Yes, comrade, those newsletters should be disposed because of evil foreign pяopoganda

New comment by u8080 in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

u8080 — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:23:02 +0000

I could miss some things from memory, but RKN originally had much less power back in the days, they were just trying to execute court orders - it started actually being self-sufficient censorship agency in ~2019

New comment by u8080 in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

u8080 — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:04:08 +0000

This is not idea, this is reality in 2026 (Tbf only for cellular internet)

New comment by u8080 in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

u8080 — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:55:07 +0000

Yes, indeed, it is still possible. Right now RKN introducing new DPI capabilities at TSPU(govt filtering hw/sw stack mandated at ISP) - proactive host probing/scanning and mandate for russian services to check and report VPN users hosts. I.e. you use e-shop app and it will report you Nehterlands VPS IP if detected, including split-tunneling tricks)

New comment by u8080 in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

u8080 — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:47:43 +0000

Just a recap how it happened in Russia:

1. First, year ~2015 legal framework was created under disguise of banning pirated media(specifically torrents.ru)(legislative push). State-wide DNS ban introduced. Very easy to circumvent via quering 8.8.8.8

2. Then, having legal basis, govt included extra stuff in banned list(casinos, terrorist orgs, etc)(executive push). IP bans introduced, applied very carefully.

3. Legal expanded allowing govt to ban specific media on very vague criterias(legislative push). IP blocks tried on some large websites. DPI hardware mandated to be installed by ISPs to filter by HTTPS SNI(executive push).

4. At ~2019 Roskomnadzor(RKN) created, special govt entity which enforces bans without court orders(legislative push).

5. ~2021 sites become banned if they are not filtering content by Russian laws by request of RKN(executive push). VPN services were obligated to also DPI-filter traffic(legislative push).

6. ~2023 Crackdown on VPN started(executive push). Popular commercial services were IP-banned, OpenVPN and IPSec connections selectively degraded by DPI.

7. ~2025 Heavy VPN filtering(vless, wireguard, etc) introduced(executive push). Performance of certain sites were degraded(youtube, twitter, etc).

New comment by u8080 in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

u8080 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:39:26 +0000

There are lot of Meshtastic nodes over Moscow and some larger cities.

Since wired internal connection inside Russia is not limited, so _for now_ there is no need in dense LoRa meshes - Meshtastic mqtt transport will work just fine.

New comment by u8080 in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

u8080 — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:49:03 +0000

+SBP in Russia with similar qualities. Russia also implemented compatible Visa/MC backbone which allowed friction-less migration after both companies left country at 2022.

New comment by u8080 in "Is my blue your blue?"

u8080 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:25:22 +0000

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